The P. & O. steamer Canton. which arrived here on the 28th ult. from London, brought a company of Royal Artillery, 186 rank and file, and a number of officers, This will bring up the strength of the Royal Artillery to about 600 men. The four companies of the Hongkong-Singapore Royal Artillery make up the total strength of this arm of the service to a thousand men—a full battalion.
NEW POSTAGE STAMPS, The Hongkong Post Office, whatever its shortcomings now or in the past, has never been guilty of pandering to the rage for new issues of its stamps. It has very sensibly adhered to one type of stamps, and when values have changed there hus now and again been a necessary change of colours; the design has never altered. Lately, however, no doubt to the joy of collectors, there have been several changes in colours. Thus the pink 2-cent stamp has been changed to green, the 4-cent stamp to red, the 5-cent blue to yellow, and the:10-cent brown on red to blue.' A new thirty-cent stamp, olive brown in colour, has also been issued.
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